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[preprint] The Academic Wheel of Privilege: An equity-based tool for authorship order.
🔗https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/af4nk_v1

@FORRT

Love this tool and this project, I've added this to my #toReadList, but also to my #UsefulTool list!

#UsefulTool; A DataBase of validated psychological measurements (apparently over 4000+)
-seems to contain licensed material for free-
https://db.arabpsychology.com/

Here’s how ChatGPT went from a useful tool to a time-wasting habit – Android Authority

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Before I knew it, ChatGPT went from a useful tool to time-wasting a habit

AI became my new endless doom-scroll without me noticing.

By Andrew Grush, December 21, 2025•

There are plenty of mixed opinions on AI’s potential benefits and harms, but I’ll admit I’ve been somewhat hooked on it from day one. I tend to dive deep into subjects with AI for short bursts that might last hours or on-and-off for a few days, and then drift away for weeks or more when life gets busy with things that are obviously more important. Slowly but surely, though, I realized I was doing less and less when it came to other personal interests. While my AI use never disrupted my real-life obligations or relationships, it was starting to cannibalize my hobbies.

Recently, I started scrolling through my massive ChatGPT log entries. Some were simple entertainment, and others were deep thoughts that frankly got a bit heavy. There were more interactions than I’d ever care to count. That’s when the thought hit me: “Has this become my new doom scroll?” I started wondering how I got to that point, how much time I was wasting, and why it felt so addictive. Eventually, I took a deeper look at my AI usage patterns and then took a step back.

Do you think you’re dependent on or addicted to AI chatbots like ChatGPT?

144 votes

How I got here and why it proved so addictive for me

According to ChatGPT, about 75% of users ask for practical guidance, seek information, or get help with writing and work tasks. This overlaps heavily with what people traditionally use search engines for. As I already mentioned, I love diving deeply into random subjects, so I fall squarely in this camp. That said, I also use AI as a sounding board for my thoughts.

Typically, I put it in a mode like Professional or Efficient and add a few custom instructions so it isn’t overly sycophantic and will push back on my weaker ideas. This can involve history questions, alternate-history scenarios, or philosophical musings. Yes, I know how to party.

AI is fast and doesn’t judge. That’s quite the dopamine hit.

To be clear, I don’t rely on AI for anything truly important. I mostly use it for personal creative work or low-stakes questions I can verify elsewhere. As someone with ADHD who loves to daydream, I also often use it to explore hypothetical rabbit holes where accuracy isn’t the priority.

So how did this turn into an addiction? AI hits several brain-level incentives for me:

• It’s fast: I don’t have to wait for a human reply or dig across multiple sites for basic answers. Yes, fact-checking is still necessary, but it’s hard to deny the convenience.
• No judgment or boredom: My wife, mom, and friends will sometimes let me info-dump about space, philosophy, or whatever else I’m fixated on, but I quickly wear out my welcome. AI doesn’t get bored.
• It’s easy, low effort: My life has been extremely hectic lately. When I finally get a moment to unwind, I want something easy and slow-paced. In the past, that meant TV or books. Lately, it’s meant long conversations with a chatbot.

For me, this feels very similar to the dopamine loop people get from YouTube, TikTok, or doomscrolling social media. A rabbit hole here and there is harmless, whether web-based or AI-based. The problem is when an occasional time-sink becomes a regular habit that eats into everything else.

I kept noticing it was suddenly midnight or later and thinking, “Oh, I meant to play a board game with the kids,” or “watch that show with my wife,” but yet again, time had slipped away. I’m far from alone, either.

Government organizations have already warned that AI companions could represent a new frontier of digital addiction, and many teens are turning to AI chatbots as emotional outlets, offering a kind of pseudo-friendship traditionally reserved for human relationships. While I’ve never lost sight of the fact that the AI talking to me is a non-human algorithm designed to placate me, many people have also had their realities turned upside down by getting too cozy with the AI to the point they feel like it’s their closest friend. The term has been dubbed “AI psychosis” and is very real for those impacted by it.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Here’s how ChatGPT went from a useful tool to a time-wasting habit

just discovered the green/red light system for doctoral supervision at Karolinska Institutiet, that people are required to fill before supervising new PhDs. Great initiative: https://staff.ki.se/doctoral-education/admission-to-doctoral-education-at-ki/green-light-approval-of-a-doctoral-supervisor
#UsefulTool

Violentomètre du doctorat par le collectif ECUME: https://sites.google.com/view/collectifecume/home/nos-productions/le-violentom%C3%A8tre-du-doctorat?authuser=0

(par contre les sollicitations vacances/weekend à la limite du vert, je suis pas d'accord)
#UsefulTool

Un guide pour comprendre et anticiper les injections pour la perte de poids, fait avec bienveillance par des militantes anti-grossophobie, comprenant notamment une liste de questions à se poser et à poser aux soignant.e.s avant d'envisager ces traitements:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hAY1Nj6JueY-MYYcwkjGI4hVms5IAgDl/view (très utile selon moi aux personnes qui se posent des questions, ou accompagnent des personnes qui se les posent)
#UsefulTool
un travail de Lisa @mongrospodcast et Nina @lesnouvellesheroines sur instagram

#UsefulTool discovered at #SIPS2025 -
🪐 The Heliocentric Model of Open Science Documentation by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez (@aeryn_thrace)
🔗 zenodo.org/records/14242565

#UsefulTool discovered at #SIPS2025 --> RESQUE app for Responsible Research Assessment 🎓
🔗 https://www.resque.info/
"The Research Quality Evaluation (RESQUE) framework provides recommendations for a responsible research assessment that does not rely on flawed metrics such as the journal impact factor or the h-index.“
Instead we value open science with a „rigor profile“."

Why #Wikis Are a #UsefulTool to Protect #OnlineInformation From Being ‘Disappeared’

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-03-17/why-wikis-are-a-useful-tool-to-protect-online-information-from-being-disappeared/

📄 Dans la même veine, le dispositif https://tool2care.uliege.be/ de l'uLiege est également fort utile (si mes souvenirs sont justes, comptes gratuits pour les étudiant.e.s et chercheur.ses, possibilité de mettre du matériel à disposition) #UsefulTool

📄 Some #UsefulTool(s) for evaluating psychological processes and related dimensions in French: https://uclep.be/resources/
(Quelques ressources utiles pour l'évaluation de certains processus psychologiques en français)

#UsefulTool #CaitlynJenner praises Trump’s #victory and is #rewarded with #MAGA #transphobia in return.

— If she thinks her #support for #trump will somehow #protect her she's an #idiot.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.intomore.com/impact/politics/caitlyn-jenner-praises-trumps-victory-and-is-rewarded-with-maga-transphobia-in-return/

https://shiny.ieis.tue.nl/sample_size_justification/

Daniel Laken's shiny app in complement of his paper on sample size justification
#UsefulTool

#UsefulTool [FR/EN]: La chaîne youtube de l'ADRIPS qui propose de la vulgarisation autour de la méthode scientifique et des statistiques utilisées en sciences psychologiques. utile pour les étudiant.e.s!
(ADRIPS's Youtube Channel proposes accessible content about stats & research methods used in Psychological Sciences. Useful for students!)
🔗 //www.youtube.com/@_adrips

#UsefulTool if you want to use the Attention Network Test: "The Attention Network Test Database" is a a repository of data extracted from all studies that have used the ANT as of 2019.
🔗 https://attentionnetwork.ca/
📄 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00388

#UsefulTool 👁️ : JANE (Journal/Author, Name Estimator) to identify which journals to publish in based on the keywords in my abstract! (among other features)
🔗 https://jane.biosemantics.org/

#UsefulTool ! KAPODI – The Searchable Database of Emotional Stimuli Sets.
Just found out about this wonderful work. it's collaborative and there are forms to complete the database with potentially missing stimuli sets.

🔗 🔎 the database here :
https://airtable.com/applhKyjKmrljh2wu/shrnVoUZrwu6riP9b/tblbCEXZDybcGptCK/viwzB0VO4Whkv6ixp?blocks=hide

🔗 📄 validation article here: https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739211072803

@frumble @jeffjarvis surprised this reporter didn’t mention that #EMuskovy bought his social media platform with the express intention of manipulating politicians and controlling journalists so that he doesn’t get regulated. He’s a #UsefulTool for those who would like to see #Democracy die.

#UsefulTool : Resources about Network Analyses https://www.analyzingsocialnetworksusingr.com/

https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
#UsefulTool for students that need to learn how tu use #R

https://michelenuijten.shinyapps.io/statcheck-web/

I've been trying to retrieve this one for several minutes so here it is: Statcheck allows you to upload a pdf and check whether the stats are consistents (F-values & p-values for instance) #UsefulTool

Look what I just found! A website that reports and classifies #criticalappraisal tools ❤️
https://www.catevaluation.ca/index.php/en/ #UsefulTool

StreetPass for Mastodon finally supports Safari

I particularly like how it maintains a running list of the accounts associated with various web sites you visit throughout the day.

https://quigs.blog/streetpass-for-mastodon-finally-supports-safari/

https://eninclusif.fr/

Un des sites internet qui me sauve régulièrement: dictionnaire en ligne qui permet de savoir comment écrire chaque mot en inclusif avec plusieurs options (singulier/pluriel/binaire ou non). Très complet avec plusieurs informations sur la manière d'écrire.

#dictionnaire #ecritureinclusive #ecriture #UsefulTool

Postdoc Researcher in #CognitivePsychology

I mostly share:
📚 articles added to my #toReadList to keep me motivated to discover new articles (un)related to my work
🛠️ #UsefulTool(s) and tips that I see online (#R, #Stats, #openscience, #writing)
📅 info about upcoming conferences that I find interesting (#ConferenceAlert)

{predominantly English, will sometimes use 🇫🇷 for specific articles, events & topics}

& a second one (kinda similar): http://www.p-curve.com/app4/
#UsefulTool

Nice tool for p-curve analysis!
https://shinyapps.org/apps/p-checker/
#UsefulTool

📓 Cool tool for ppl who like to take notes in Word by copy-pasting paragraphs from PDFs: this website allows to delete line breaks and spaces, I find it super useful! #UsefulTool
https://www.textfixer.com/tools/remove-line-breaks.php